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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO DIXIE
Have you ever been to Dixie Would you like to coine along For I?m on my way to Dixie
That?s the place where I was bom When you wake up in the morning By a mocking birds refrain And at twilight you go strolling Down a honey suckle lane You can hear the willows sighing Long the Mississippi shore You can hear the darkies singing Sitting in their cabin door Folks are always glad to see you No matter when you call And their favorite expression is Come back again you all
Marguerite Backman
I DREAM OF DIXIE I dream of Dixie in the summertime With her fields of cotton and of corn The Mississippi flowing to the sea And a darky's happy song.
The honeysuckle?s fragrance fills the air And the fish are jump'in in the pond There?s no place on earth nearer to my heart Than Dixieland where I was born.
I can see old Ligie with his droopy eyes And his kinky head as white as snow And good old Rachel with her same kind smile I remember long ago.
I soon awaken from my reverie Longing for the place where I belong